RE: [Xen-users] NFS root mount problem

["Petersson, Mats" <Mats.Petersson@xxxxxxx>]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: xen-users-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx 
> [mailto:xen-users-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of 
> Peggy Fenner
> Sent: 31 May 2006 12:56
> To: xen-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [Xen-users] NFS root mount problem
> 
> Hello. =)
> 
> I'm having a bit of trouble with my nfs xen installation and 
> have spent much time trying to research/figure out this 
> problem with no luck, so I'm hoping someone might be able to 
> help me here. =)
> 
> I've successfully installed xen 3.02 on Linux RH4 on my Sun 
> single proc opteron v20z server.
> 
> I've installed what I believe to be a base Linux OS on a 
> Netapp partition and am trying to create a subdomain 
> referencing the netapp nfs mount.
> The xm create dies with the following errors:
> 
> Making device nodes
> File descriptor 3 left open
>    No volume groups found
> Creating root device
> Mounting root filesystem
> mount: error 6 mounting ext3
> mount: error 2 mounting none
> Switching to new root
> switchroot: mount failed: 22
> umount /initrd/dev failed: 2
> Kernel panic - not syncing: Attempted to kill init!
> 
> My nfs configs from my config file are the following:
> # Root device for nfs.
> root = "/dev/nfs"
> # The nfs server.
> nfs_server = '172.21.156.15'
> # Root directory on the nfs server.
> nfs_root   = '/vol/xen/xenlinux-mv-01'
> 
> I can mount that manually.
> 
> The fstab in the netapp mount looks like this:
> # Root
> 209.157.156.15:/vol/xen/xenlinux-mv-01  /       nfs      
> defaults        0 0
> none                    /dev/pts                devpts   
> gid=5,mode=620  0 0
> none                    /proc                   proc     
> defaults        0 0
> none                    /dev/shm                tmpfs    
> defaults        0 0
> 
> I'm really not sure what im missing...
> Any help would be very much appreciated.
> 
> Thank you!
> Peggy Fenner
> UNIX Systems Administrator
> peggy@xxxxxxxxxx
> 
> 
Is there any chance you haven't got NFS file-system in the guest Linux
kernel? It appears that it's trying to mount an ext3 volume which fails,
that looks a bit weird to me... 


--
Mats


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